Hey, everyone, I'm JJ Stankovits and welcome into another edition of the Undercenter podcast, brought to you by Sprinkler Fitters Union Local 281.

The Bears offseason program is over, but the Undercenter podcast is not.

Cam Ellis joins me to break down Matt Nagy's decision to cancel the rest of virtual

OTAs in minicamp and what a shortened preseason could mean for the Bears in 2020. Also, I talked

the former all-pro safety and NBC sports analyst Rodney Harrison about Eddie Jackson, Mitch Trubisky,

and a whole lot more. All that coming up on the Under Center podcast starting right now.

What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question. It means everything to me.

That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.

The history of it.

I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises, just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.

The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the running back position with guys like

Dale Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps.

So being a bear means everything.

And what more can you say?

All right, Cam, the Zoom meeting portion of the Bears off season comes to a close on Thursday the day we're releasing this podcast.

And I thought it was, it didn't like really surprise me that Matt and Aggie made this decision to cut this offseason short, the offseason program short.

Because I kind of feel like you can

only accomplish so much over Zoom conference calls. And when they're every single day,

that, I mean, you know, OTAs are already extremely monotonous to go watch. But to do it over Zoom, I think the Bears probably just hit a

point where they couldn't really accomplish anything more. And to Matt Nagy's credit, he said,

I want my players to use this time to go train and try to prepare their bodies as best as possible

for training camp. So what do we think about

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